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There has been a lot of discussion in the past about wanting to be able to view comment history and recent activity like votes and such, but nothing has come about it yet (seems to be very popular, though).

I imagine that at some point in time the commenting system will grow in overall robustness. I just can't really say when that will happen. Maybe in 6 to 8 weeks.

Not without going back and actually looking. I suppose the team feels upvotes are pretty trivial when it comes to comments. Their triviality is the reason why you can't edit comments, or downvote them. They're a dime a dozen, and they don't earn you any reputation either.

In some cases I leave a comment adding something to the answer someone's left, and it can be nice to know if people agree with me without having to start the question and come back later.
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marcggSep 3 '09 at 17:16

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Yeah; I agree. It would be nice, but the team doesn't appear to be interested in updating the commenting-system. In all honesty, while I like the ideas, I can understand that they probably have heavier tasks to deal with.
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SampsonSep 3 '09 at 17:18

+1 Nice — while I agree with what Jonathan said about the understandability of SO team keeping the commenting system relatively simple, etc, it's still interesting to see if I'm getting close to that badge (no) =)
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JonikSep 16 '09 at 5:25

I agree - I find it odd that you can't easily find this information when the ultra-rare Pundit badge exists to specifically encourage excellent comments. It doesn't seem unreasonable to want to know whether even one of your comments, lost somewhere on the site, has achieved a rating of 10... (although I don't think I've ever got above a 2 for a comment, so no danger there for me personally - but then, there's no way for me to actually know that ;).

There are badges for editing as well, but no way of viewing how many edits are made. I suspect it's a matter of wanting to encourage the practice (editing, commenting) in general, but not as a game.
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Shog9♦Sep 3 '09 at 20:59

I agree. Although watching the votes is more like an ego issue, knowing there has been activity on a thread that you posted in can be relevant. I wrote a mini-app to watch these things. It's not pretty, but it works (for me, anyway).